Carleton University Off Campus Housing

Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in the capital of
Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University
Act, 1952, S.O. 1952. Originally founded on rented premises in 1942, Carleton
would grow in size to meet the needs of returning WWII veterans and later became
Ontario's first private, non-denominational college. It would expand further in
the 1960s, consistent with government policy that saw increased access to higher
education as a social good and means to economic growth, and is today a public
university, offering more than 65 academic programs across a wide range of
disciplines. Carleton is reputed for its strength in a variety of fields, such
as engineering, humanities, international business and many of the disciplines
housed in its Faculty of Public Affairs (including international affairs,
journalism, political science, public policy and administration, and legal
studies).

It is named after the former Carleton County, Ontario, which included the city
of Ottawa at the time Carleton was founded. Carleton County, in turn, was named
in honour of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, an early Governor-General of
British North America. Carleton currently houses more than 22,000 undergraduate
and more than 3,000 postgraduate students. Its campus is located west of Old
Ottawa South, within close proximity to The Glebe and Confederation Heights, and
is bounded to the north by the Rideau Canal and Dow's Lake and to the south by
the Rideau River. The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity
Sport by the Carleton Ravens.